Vowel breaking in Russian

[John Dunn]

Interesting.  I shall listen out for it.  To a native speaker of (British) English it is a little odd to come across the glottal stop as a feature of carefully pronounced speech.

John Dunn. 
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Actually, there seems to be some literature on the web on the гортанная смычка in Russian.  It apparently can occur electively at word breaks and between vowels word-internally, esp. in emotional or carefully pronounced speech.  Notable, the most common reference to explain to the non-linguist the nature of the sound appears to be... "не-а".

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